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I do hope that the Amarr ships are still a WIP - as well as my NM - because wow if not.

some are looking acceptable to the standard - such as the Paladin - accept for a the darkest parts - little lacking in detail and real artistic shading... but some are horrible tacky/gaudy - the Abaddon is probably the worst offender atm... but a lot of the colors are still plain wrong.

The funny thing is - you take the Apocalypse and you look at the lit-side and it looks like a badly painted toy... you look at the same ship from the other side and the colors, details and lights and all are just outstanding looking due to the change in shades from it not being so harshly lit... I think if they took the image of that side and then used that as the color pallet we would be in business on the Amarrian scheme.

Would have to agree on the Amarr ships case.

Most of them need some recoloring/retexturing work done. Under most lighting effects the colors look either dirty or give out a paper-plastic feel. Hell its as if the Empire run out of armor plates and used dirty paper sheets or something.

even wings would be nice

The Serpentis ships are still grey. Why are they grey?

Why for the love of Bob are the Serpentis ships grey? They need to be black. Make them black. Even if you're turning Gallente civilian ships aluminum silver now, having Serpentis be grey looks way too much like them. I'm not kidding. They look like T1 ships, not Pirate ships.

Make the Serpentis ships black again and keep the shadowy Serpentis space-camo. Then they can be done.

Team TriLambda, Serpentis must be black! There will be an absolute firestorm over this and you know it just as well as I do. There will be a firestorm over the Angels ships looking bleached as well, but I don't know what to suggest about those. Maybe the tan base color needs to be darkened or something, but Angel ships overall just look wrong.

First and foremost, however, I must implore that you make Serpentis ships black again like they should be!

So I downloaded the latest SiSi update and took another look at the ships.
Overall, this is an improvement from the last round with a few noted exceptions: All Pirate ships (including Serpentis, Mordus, Guristas, Sansha. Angel, Blood Raider and Sister) are not an improvement. Specifically:

• The new Guristas camouflage colour scheme looks worse than the old one. Surely with the thousands of camouflage textures out there this could be updated to something relevant?
• Since when did the Nestor get chrome plating? Eh, no one flies it anyway...
• The Machariel and Vindicator have completely and totally lost all appeal. The Machariel now looks like a cheap Guristas knockoff and we've already touched on the Vindicator's change from black to silver. The Vindicator needs to return to its black origins and the Angel ships should actually return to their 'tigershark' blacklist mottled colour scheme from days past.
• Sansha ships lost the cool rainbow-ish colour effect; looks flat and drab now. I can't emphasize enough how these all need to return to the original designs.
• Blood Raider ships just look flat and "meh". Since the textures are being re-done anyway why not make these a matte black with metallic crimson blood spatters and red running lights?
• Mordus Legion; the textures are improved, and the off-black is not bad although why we can't make this a 'stealth' black ship is beyond me. Now if only CCP Rise would un-suck the Bharghest…

Are the new battleship skins finally being released in Rhea?

PBR needs to be put off, and by put off I mean scrapped.

Please don't destroy the games visuals like this.

It is an entirely unnecessary downgrade.

Do you honestly think CCP will scrap this feature, having done so much work on it?

Overdramatic much? We're seeing some of the best expansions in recent times and you're having a hissy fit because you can't have your googles just the way you like when playing dress up?

This guy gets it.

Not at all - from the looks of things on sisi atm, that is exactly what it is.